Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk

2004-11-26 Thread Ian Moore
that on ad0. Alternately if you have some kind of Linux live cd, you might install lilo from that. Or as Joshua suggested, use GAG - it's the easiest bootmanager to install configure that I've ever seen. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpK1Yzg53J93.pgp

Re: Remembering defines for port upgrades.

2004-11-27 Thread Ian Moore
' '-DWITH_FREETYPE' mplayer or spend a moment and add those switches to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf: MAKE_ARGS = { 'multimedia/mplayer-*' = 'WITH_GUI=1 WITH_FREETYPE=1', } Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgp3MjXHbjmK4.pgp

Re: rj-45 connector

2004-11-28 Thread Ian Moore
|---| Hope that makes sense. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpM5Z1johpU0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers

2004-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
a benevolent eye on you. And, of course, FreeBSD boxer shorts are a real turn on for your significant other. Dunno, I quite like the unconventional recessed look of the stickers .. and your SO thinks you spend quite enough time with The Beastie already! Cheers, Ian

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Moore
also remove all the old versions . Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgp1bb28uwjVn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Moore
and then install php, since the Makefile for mod_php says: CONFLICTS= php4-4* php4-cli-4* php4-cgi-4* Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpiQLWBuGW3z.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-14 Thread Ian Moore
in the future, always use portupgrade to upgrade your ports. That way you won't get multiple versions installed! Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpbQgvj96yom.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php4 install has conflicts

2004-12-15 Thread Ian Moore
portupgrade -N php4-4.3.9_1 (-N means install a new port) or you can just cd to the php4 port directory and use make install clean to install it. Hope that helps. Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgp4uJ65MQpfM.pgp Description: PGP signature

linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Ian Moore
if the problem goes away when I update my ports tree next time? Cheers, -- Ian Moore GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc pgpAWKu4Kre5K.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:39, Joe Altman wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:57:09PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: snip === Installing for linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 === linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): linux_base-7.1_7 They install files

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:42, epilogue wrote: On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:57:41 +1030 Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I've delete linux-base, now portupgrade says: Stale dependency: linux-realplayer-8.cs2_5 -- linux_base-7.1_7 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force

Re: Dmesg truncated

2004-12-17 Thread Ian Dowse
a bit later): sysctl kern.log_console_output=0 Finally, you can increase the message buffer size by recompiling your kernel with a custom MSGBUF_SIZE setting. Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-23 Thread Ian Moore
can watch DVDs, mount a DVD-ROM I've burnt a DVD-RW successfully. There's nothing special in my kernel except ATAPICAM support. I mount it as a SCSI device, so maybe it's worth trying that on your system? Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc

Re: The FreeBSD Foundation

2004-12-24 Thread Ian Moore
in 1978 when 1BSD was created by UCB's CSRG as a fork of UNIX6. The BSD project continued at UCB for snip Wow, that was a great bit of history, Ted. I love reading about the history of FreeBSD unix, almost as much as I love using FreeBSD! Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http

Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!

2004-12-24 Thread Ian Moore
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 02:25, David Vincelli wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:22:16 +1030, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:58, David Vincelli wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a few days ago to have the atapicam device

Firefox bus error

2004-12-28 Thread Ian Moore
/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so [/usr/local/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so: Undefined symbol XtStrings] firefox-bin: Fatal IO error 78 (Function not implemented) on X server :0.0. Does anyone have any suggestions? Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc

Re: Firefox bus error

2004-12-30 Thread Ian Moore
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:57, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I've just finished upgrading my ports after a cvsup a few days ago. Now when I try to start firefox, all I get is % firefox bus error I did some googling found this: i solved the problem i told you about switching CFLAGS from -O2 -pipe

Re: java question.

2005-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
had a FBSD version of everything but [*sigh*] that's not the way it is? gary Yes you can. I deinstalled my linux-java a while back have successfully updated jdk-14 twice since then - you only need the linux version the first tim. Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
pounds and ounces, feet and inches, gallons and pints .. that is, you probably shouldn't be holding your breath :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in gv, while others are ok. Yes, but it outputs

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
Gonzalo, please cc those to whom you are responding. I had to dig this out of the digest, which breaks the threading .. On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:35:36 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008

Re: mpd - lcp protocol rejects

2008-10-25 Thread Ian Smith
and vpn connection stops working. mpd.conf: I can't answer your question, but I'm pretty sure that if you posted your nicely detailed message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] especially if cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] you'll most likely get an informed response. cheers, Ian

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the latter, does the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock exist? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
in CMOS? If the latter, does the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock exist? cheers, Ian Copying back to the list, for the archives and for more eyes to help, especially if the below doesn't help. Thanks for the reply, wondering how to configure freebsd to use CMOS time, as i'm using

Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Smith
^$ no_browser I want the equivalent for this (invalid and totally fanciful) match: SetEnvIf (no_browser AND no_referer) go_away Any clues? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat off the most rapacious robots

[SOLVED] Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
In this (earlier) case, 192.168.2.14 was receiving but apparently not responding to those packets .. whereas above (later) it was responding? More details of your setup might help to dispel these mysteries. cheers, Ian PS removing ipfw@ from ccs .. that's more about ipfw development

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the problem persists: 0056626 3090 deny ip from 221.192.199.36 to any 65330

FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
will confirm internal flows, or show blockages. At this time I must go back to the original setting in order to dial ISP. And lastly I'm sorry for long questions. A pleasure when we can take sensible questions, nicely presented :) cheers, Ian

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: snip Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let us know Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys about fully abastracting the mini in software... back in a jiffy ;-) Actually VMWare

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
it fails, if it still does .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
in favour of mpd4, and that works well for me (yes with natd, though on a 5.5 system) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
a) ifconfig b) netstat -rn c) at least the relevant firewall rule/s and d) log entries that illustrate your problem. Obscure sensitive information by all means, but otherwise pretend we haven't the slightest clue how your system is configured :) cheers, Ian

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
syntax in /etc/ipfw.rules. Well I'm pretty sure you shouldn't load ipdivert as well as using ipfw nat, but I've been almost 100% wrong so far so perhaps best ignore me :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating an ipfw rule and testing it from the command line works (connects out from

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating

Re: ipfw and bridged interface

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
other rules would apply. Is it still the case? Where can I find th description? Hi Olivier, See the ipfw(8) section PACKET FLOW .. it's all there, with examples of how to separate layer2 from layer3 traffic, inbound and outbound. cheers, Ian

Re: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 and Enhanced Speedstep

2008-12-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: 2008/12/9 Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:37:09 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ skipping lots until you've seen how powerd goes on it .. and please drop gmail's HTML attachments on messages to the FreeBSD lists

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
. Read ipfw(8) about 10 times, largely ignore the current ipfw section in the handbook, and prosper .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
script that does 'shutdown -p now [comment ..]' Shutdown is cleaner than reboot, runs 'stop' rc.d scripts for all active daemons, and leaves a nice log entry in messages, including any comment. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote: Ian Smith writes: Or let your dad login with his own account and password. Just add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown. If that's the only priveledged command he needs ... is there a reason sudo isn't

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-23 Thread Ian Smith
destination. Doesn't sound too risky if Gilles trusts him enough to run shutdown :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

OT [was: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool ..]

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
run off his feet right now. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
wrapper in sysinstall to slice usb stick disks, sometimes with both msdos and ufs slices, just because I prefer that interface rather than maybe miscalculating an offset or size .. ymmv. And from the darkside, FDISK x: /MBR probably still works :) HTH, Ian

Re: named won't bind to external interface and ignores other options.

2008-12-31 Thread Ian Smith
', what shows up in /var/log/messages ? What's in /etc/rc.conf concerning named ? Any clues from 'rndc status'? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
a backup on the disk) Thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca

Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
) Thanks p.s. Please reply to me also as I am a digest member thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI  - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI  - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca

RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, We had a power lost even though we have ups and generators (still investigating it) and when the machine rebooted one of the disk seems to be failed : The system complains about fsck repaired failed and that I must run it manually. It then boots in single user mode. I entered

Re: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
on an external interface address to receive mail from outside this box .. How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the internet ?? % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-24 Thread Ian Smith
larger queue for this pipe, at 100Mbit/s. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [..] 00060: 192.000 Kbit/s0 ms 30 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail 0 tcp 192.168.0.64/1032207.46.106.36/1863 1847947 563209421 0 0 141 00070: 3.072 Mbit/s0 ms 40 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail

Re[2]: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, KES wrote: , Ian. May be this will be usefull for you Yes, but I need to read it more times :) Nicely answers the question about stats per flow/queue anyway, not too hard to parse for logging. #1. ping -D -S 10.10.16.16 -s 1472 -i 0.01 10.0.16.1 #2

Re: #2 DNS Auto in KPPP in FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
either ppp(8) - which is extensively supported by the FreeBSD Handbook and in the mailing lists - or the net/mpd5 port, which uses in-kernel netgraph modules. Both support fetching upstream DNS addresses. I happily used ppp(8) for 10 years, but now prefer mpd. cheers, Ian

sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
:%[#]*} ip=${addr:%%[#]*} but all of these report './testbit: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution' How can I split these strings to exclude the '#' and all beyond, preferably using sh syntax, at least without resorting to perl? Please cc me as I'm only subscribed to the digest. TIA, Ian

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': addr

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
Thanks Ed - good old sed - and Jonathan too, now the digest's here. 195.68.176.4 Lest anyone get the wrong idea: that's a victim, perpetrator unknown. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Smith
:20 host1 inetd[1248]: accept (for pop3): Software caused connection abort I need some clues to undestand what is happening. Thank you, - Marcelo Yes, 'Too many dynamic rules'; further connections will surely fail. cheers, Ian

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
? Failing that, you can boot single user, mount /var, rm /var/run/utmp, hit ^D (or reboot) .. IIRC I had to do that once; not sure what happens if you rm /var/run/utmp while running multi-user! :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. This list is getting very hard to follow as a digest anymore, when half of it or more is re-re-repeated overtailquoting of irrelevant trivia. Please come back from the dark side .. Cheers anyway, Ian

Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. well, sorry, but i don't use M$ Outlock That's more like it! :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Problem with speedtouch 330

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 248, Issue 23

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
. Please don't ever again top-post a meaningless comment followed by a tail-quoted dump of the previous 80 kilobyte digest into the next one. Ian (on behalf of other questions-digest subscribers) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Odd DNS requests

2009-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
:05.249252 192.168.0.1.53 192.168.0.59.60806: 10032 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (129) (DF) What exactly are these hoping to discover, and what needs turning off in the Mac's setup (OSX, most likely a recent version) to quell them? cheers, Ian (please cc me, I'm subscribed to the -digest

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, George Davidovich wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:32:47PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed on a filtering bridge between the LAN

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-03 Thread Ian Smith
the default options and thus the built package - weirdly, in my view - doesn't include mod_php, though I bet most PHP users wanted it for that. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? I am running FBSD 7.1, with KDE4. The last attempt deleted a file used by X-windows (and perhaps others), but I had no specific instructions as a guide. ___

Re: ipfw: Can't see other flows in pipe

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
of the first packet using that bucket, not the most recent. You may also find http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ helpful. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How do I determine the FreeBSD world revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
as been left at 7.1-RELEASE. Now, it could have been 7.0-RELEASE or 7.x-RELEASE and after upgrading the kernel, is this informaiton stored anywhere? Also, if this *is* explained somewhere, and I've missed, I honestly apologize in advance. Thanks, Ian -- So drop on the deck and flop like a fish

Re: Apache 1.3.41

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps /IfModule Looks right here. NameVirtualHost * include /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.sites Presumably unchanged/ok? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Ian Smith
-world UDP transfers (eg realaudio) will back off from sending more in the absense of some sort of specific or periodic acknowledgements. I'm not sure what happens with multicast traffic. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
if you like extra typing, or are using linux :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
it finally quits! (extreme example, but a true story from a wild ebay session yesterday :) not exit(2) itself Well that just starts that big VM ball rolling, so to speak .. so it's a tad more complex than a program that fills memory (+ swap) then exits. cheers, Ian

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
exactly why you DO need to run that when (ever) working single user, if you want file/log datestamps consistent. I can't comment on i386/amd64 differences, but it's necessary on i386. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
the wireless card or bridge and the longer fat leads. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
a crash course in iptables re both firewall and shaping. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-24 Thread Ian Smith
packages, right from the dist CDs/DVD if desired. Ah, for the good old days when it wasn't assumed that everyone had both fast boxes and fast net connections :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
holding on to some old bad controlling terminal even though they daemonize themselves. I have to admit I don't completely understand it all (in part because anything involving 'controlling terminals' is usually a bit mystifying for me), but hopefully he's right... cheers, Ian Chuck Swiger

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:36:26 Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:16 +0100 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:13:33 Christoph Kukulies wrote

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
. KDE3 includes Kturtle, not 'pure' Logo at all but a reasonable interface and some decent starter examples to see if kids find it interesting, then maybe move onto ucblogo (which I haven't played with, but looks fully-featured and well-documented on a quick scan of the pkglist) cheers, Ian

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
/speaker are userland processes; I've no idea how much 'fun' it would be to invoke /dev/speaker ioctls from the kbd drivers. But if you're really keen: % find /sys/ -name speaker* -o -name spkr* cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:07:34 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:19:49AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:23:22 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: [..] Wow; the stuff I've never heard about:-) --I just tried spkrtest

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2009-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed First up, you'd be better off using a non-Windows charset here, as they use weird characters just for

fpc on FreeBSD?

2009-12-29 Thread Ian Smith
, but basically I'd just like to hear that it's working ok for someone and is worth the learning curve? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: fpc on FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:35:05 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? Usable. Thanks for confirmation, Boris, 'usable' and 'working OK' are good enough. I installed it on my Thinkpad's

Re: sendmail: open-relay

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
that was somehow actually valid on your system. Indeed. Unless there's a 'to=[*.]abuse.net [...] stat=Sent' line in maillog then or later, your Bad Day Theory sounds quite likely. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2010-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:29:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 291, Issue 3, Message: 1 On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: [..] All of these, at least from DOS

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-08 Thread Ian Smith
/windows on a slow machine already under swap stress, and even somehow(?) has increased idle CPU in top by about 3% to over 90%! cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ISO image size -regarding

2010-01-09 Thread Ian Smith
of amdsmb changes yet) I looked up information on creating custom ISO images but they had all involved rebuilding the kernel while I am not sure if I need to do the same Any leads is appreciated. Yes, running make release might be just a tad over the top for this :) cheers, Ian

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
CDROM :) on my 2002 IBM Thinkpad T23 with only USB 1.0, after having promoted it in the BIOS boot order. I suggest remaking the image using dd exactly as above and trying that. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
to be participating in the process, I expect. cc'ing Randi Harper, who's been working on sysinstall lately (and to whom I still owe some mail about related matters) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Invalid partition table after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, John wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:34:10PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 19 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:35:21 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: [..] OK! Well! Good news! After a sort. I

Re: can't make an 'a' slice except with auto-defaults

2010-02-03 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 296, Issue 6, Message: 20 On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:26:06 -0700 Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:59:15PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On a running

Re: User Directories On FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

2010-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
/home is a symlink to /usr/home that may be problematic; eg: Directory / Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None order allow,deny deny from all /Directory cheers, Ian

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Ian Smith
? Are they assuming a 'secondary' MX will be more likely to accept spam? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Calculating kernel/user/idle time

2010-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
for measuring 'summary' load for multiple CPUs, as explained with revision 1.21.2.2 at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/powerd/powerd.c which code may prove worthwhile exploring, or stealing. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

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